Good Technology Collective

What is good Technology? 35C3 - 28. December 2018

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Yann Leretaille french-german, hacker, entrepreneur, technology maker

CC-BY-SA-4.0 Rebecca Fitzer/GTC

Co-Founder 1aim

Founding Member Good Technology Collective

About the GTC • NGO, Founded in Dec 2017

• Diverse Expert Council

• 3 Areas of work:

1. Educating the Public

2. Educating Engineers

3. Legislation (long-term)

2018 so far

COUNCIL

MEMBERS

IN 2018 IN 2018

ARTICLES EVENTS

27

15

20+

IN 2018 TODAY! (DRAFT)

STANDARD

PUBLISHED

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https://goodtechnologycollective.com/newsletter/

Anke Domscheit-Berg Activist and Member of Parliament

Rachel Coldicutt CEO and Activist

Torben Friehe AI Entrepreneur

Elena Shifrina Entrepreneur

Claudio Agosti Researcher and Activist

Ida Tin App Entrepreneur

Aleksei Istomin Entrepreneur

Nicolas Granatino Venture Capitalist

Luciano Floridi Professor

Diego Naranjo Researcher and Activist

Ilya Flaks VR/AR Entrepreneur

Vladimir Smerkis Crypto Entrepreneur

GTC Council Members

Pictures provided by Council Members

GTC Council Members

Paul Armstrong Journalist

Annie Machon Whistleblower

Jennifer Baker Technology Reporter

Farid Ismayilzada Entrepreneur

Gunita Kulikovska VR Entrepreneur

Bard Anders Kasin VR/AR Entrepreneur

Anna Uddenberg Artist

Gerd Leonhard Futurist

Yann Leretaille Entrepreneur

Matt McMullen AI Entrepreneur

Yury Vlasov Entrepreneur

Kaustav Bhattacharya Entrepreneur

Pictures provided by Council Members

Negative Impacts of Technology?

CC0 Stuart Rankin (flickr) SpaceX landing two Falcon Heavy boosters at the same time

Unintended Consequences?

Unintended Consequences?

Map data © 2018 GeoBasis-DE/BKG (© 2009), Google

CC-BY-SA-2.0 zombieite (flickr) Google/Waymo self-driving car in Tempe

Who Designs these Products?

Who Designs these Products?

Who Designs these Products?

Us

Current

social rules

and values

Good Technology

What is

technogically

possible

Solution Space of Good Technology

Good Technology Standard Easy to use, practical guidelines that help

organizations to ensure that good products are being developed

Adopting the Standard

• All Project Phases: First Idea, Spec, Implementation

• All Stakeholders: Engineers, Designers, Leads, Project

Managers, Legal, Executives, ...

• Organization-Wide Guidelines

01 Empowerment

It empowers its users.

02 Purposeful

Product Design

It is build to purpose.

03 Societal Impact

It considers the long-term

social impact.

04 Sustainable Product

Design

It is sustainable.

What makes a good product/technology?

Empowerment A good product empowers its users.

Empower vs. patronize • Humans have limited decision making power

• Technology should assist humans to reach their full potential

• We should all be empowered by the technology we use on a daily basis

Checklist • Are we empowering our users or taking responsibility away?

• Does our product respect individual choice and individual preferences?

• Do users feel that they benefit from using the product?

• Does it help humans grow in anyway (personally, socially, physically)?

• How is the use of AI impacting users’ thinking and reasoning?

Purposeful Product Design A good product is build to purpose.

CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Philips Communications (flickr)

Smart Lightbulb

„ Smart “ 1. Take a product

2. Build a Wi-Fi chip into it

3. Label it smart

4. Make more money!

Intelligent by Design 1. Think about the purpose of your product

2. Use all technologies available (new and old ones, including AI) to design your product so that it suits the purpose as much as possible

3. Check for purpose in each step of the design process

!

Picture by Jatin Anand (Pexels License)

Checklist • What is the purpose of my product? Who is it for?

• Does this product make sense?

• Could any feature of my product distract users?

• Which features could I leave out?

• Are there more intelligent/efficient solutions to the problem?

• What is the long-term product vision?

Societal Impact A good product considers the long-term social impact.

Checklist • Are there any negative long-term impacts of the product to

society if it would used by millions of people?

• Are we taking advantage of human weaknesses (e.g. brain hacking)?

• In case of AI: Am I introducing any biases/discrimination?

• Could the product be dangerous when combined with other products?

• Do the Black-Mirror litmus test!

Sustainable Product Design A good product is sustainable.

Checklist • Are we unnecessarily limiting the product lifetime?

• What is the product’s environmental impact? Are there economically viable alternative solutions to reduce that impact?

• Do we rely on environmentally or ethically questionable suppliers/services or materials (in case of hardware)?

• For Hardware: Are we using lower-quality, more easily breakable materials to achieve only fractional/minor savings?

Additional Checklists

Data Collection

User Product Education & Transparency

Data Collection • Are we collecting any data that we do not need for our

application?

• Can we realize the same application/precision by collecting fewer data points?

• How privacy-intrusive is the data we collect?

• Are we collecting data without consent (even if it is not legally required to do so)?

• Are users fooled into sharing data using dark patterns?

User Product Education & Transparency

• Is the user able to understand how the product works?

• Is the user informed when decisions are made for them?

• Is the technology behind the product advertised in a way that it gives a false sense of what the technology actually can do or how it works?

Checklist • Building a strategy

• Brand awareness campaign

• Demographic and

• Developing a mission statement

• Building audience personas

Framework for your content plan

Please contribute!

https://goodtechnologycollective.com/standard

“ I feel tremendous guilt.

[…] I think in the back the deep recesses of our minds we knew something bad could happen.

But I think the way we defined it is not like this. It literally is at a point now where i think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.”

Chamath Palihapitiya, Former Facebook Executive

CC-BY-SA-2.0 JD Lasica(flickr)

Thank you. Let‘s create good technology together.

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